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Opuscula
by Augustinus (St. Augustine of Hippo)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 1483. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Later full parchment, mildly soiled, inner joints cracked, covers slightly bowed, old bookplate to pastedown and stamp to first page, lacking first and last blanks otherwise complete, trimmed a bit close at top in a few spots, nearly touching the running title, page edge sponge decorated; a few groups of pages browned, handful of early marginal notes, scattered minor foxing and staining; generally very clean. An important collection of genuine and pseudo-Augustinian works, first collected here (seven of these had been printed in a Krakow produced Opuscula in 1476). It includes the confessions, meditations and twenty other works both by Augustine and thought to have been by him. 274 (of 276, lacking blanks) leaves. ISTC ia01216000 Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 0. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046840.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046840
- Title
- Opuscula
- Author
- Augustinus (St. Augustine of Hippo)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Vellum)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Octavianus Scotus
- Place of Publication
- Venice
- Date Published
- 1483
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOISBN
Terms of Sale
Pazzo Books
Returns accepted for any reason within 30 days of shipment - full refund less shipping. If we have made a mistake, we will pay shipping both ways. Institutions billed according to their requirements.
About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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